Vocabulary
Academic Word List
- approach
- area
- benefits
- chemical
- concentrated
- consequences
- contrary
- culture
- distinct
- extract
- focus
- ignored
- interact
- isolated
- maintaining
- medical
- negative
- obviously
- positive
- potentially
- process
- refined
- retained
- specific
- target
- techniques
Other Vocabulary
- alleviate
- artificial
- chemotherapy
- diluted
- discarded
- distilled
- eradicate
- essential
- herbal
- industrialized
- intricately
- laboratory
- microscope
- overly
- pharmacy
- prescription
- prizes (v)
- radiotherapy
- remedies
- synthetic
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do exercises 1 and 2.
Pre-Listening
With your group, look at the responses you gave previously when you were making predictions based on the Listening Introduction. Discuss your findings from your website research together and listen to the Listening Introduction again.
Listening
You will now hear the next part of the Listening, which discusses what type of drugs are used for Chinese and Western medicine. As you listen, try to write down anything that might help you remember the main ideas. Look again at the vocabulary words for this Listening because they might be useful to write down as you listen.
References
Cohen, L. (2012, January 25). Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compared to Western medicine. Decoded Science. Retrieved from http://www.decodedscience.com/traditional-chinese
Herbal Remedy Pro. (n.d.). Herbal remedies or prescription drugs? Retrieved from http://www.herbalremedypro.com/herbsvsdrugs.htm
Lau, S. (2009, February 13). The major differences between Chinese medicine and Western medicine. EzineArticles.com. Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Major-Differences-Between
Traditional Chinese Medicine. (2011, May 4). A comparison between Chinese and Western medicine. Retrieved from http://www.learntcm.com/articles/a-comparison
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 3 and 4.
Post-Listening
Exercise
Listen to the passage again and complete the table in Exercise 5. Then do exercise 6 and 7.
